Delaware Liberal

Is Jim DeMint(R-SC) Damaging National Security?

Yesterday an anonymous Senator blocked the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2007. Congressional Quarterly has identified that Senator as FSP Golden Boy, Jim DeMint. CQ says:

[Sen. DeMint] is said to be concerned about provisions of the bill that require the Bush administration to report to Congress on its detention policies, such as those pertaining to its secret CIA prisons, as well as a provision to declassify the total intelligence budget.

Secrecy News has the story, but to sum up, there has been no Intelligence Authorization Act for the past 2 years and DeMint wants to keep that going since it ties the hands of the intelligence committees. Because, really, do we need intelligence anymore???

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